V-Ray 7 for Maya, hotfix 1 - now available!

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V-Ray 7 for Maya, hotfix 1 is now available

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This release adds support for Maya 2026 and MayaUSD 0.31.0 as well as some improvements and a bunch of bugfixes

For a full Changelog visit our Release notes page or check bellow.

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New features:

(*) Installer: Add support for Maya 2026

(*) USD: Add support for MayaUSD 0.31.0 for Maya 2024, Maya 2025 and Maya 2026


Modified features:

(*) USD: Export XGen Intractive Groom Splines to GeomMayaHair in USD

(*) VRayMtl: Update UI for VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode
(*) VRayMtl: Add better support for Reflection amount for VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode
(*) VRayMtl: Adjusted VRayMtl in OpenPBR mode to always use the roughness model
(*) VRayMtl: Add Shading Model dropdown option in Hypershade Property editor

(*) MaterialX: Fixed wrong position for materialX worleynoise_3d and cellnoise_3d
(*) MaterialX: Fixed incorrect results for normal map in mtlx
(*) MaterialX: Fixed wrong specular anisotropy direction with Standard Surface
(*) MaterialX: Fixed wrong render with anisotropy value 0 with Standard Surface

(*) VRaySun: Added support for creating multiple VRaySun nodes
(*) VRaySun: Adjusted VRaySun Turbidity min and max default values
(*) VRaySun: Added support for animating VRaySun Altitude and Turbidity for PRG sky

(*) V-Ray: Added option to skip adding "_tmp" to the output file name when using vrend command
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash when adding image to Background layer in VFB on macOS
(*) V-Ray: Added process memory usage report in the progress output
(*) V-Ray: Added a warning when no selected materials can be exported during a MaterialX export
(*) V-Ray: Brought back GPU CUDA and RTX options in the V-Ray for Mac builds
(*) V-Ray: Expose "Hardware textures" mode for GPU rendering on MacOS
(*) V-Ray: Fixed OCIO config file with backslashes in the path not loading on Linux
(*) V-Ray: Fixed bitmaps from IFL with backslashes in the path not loading on Linux
(*) V-Ray: Fixed OIDN Prefilter option becoming available if the Intel Denoiser is selected for IPR
(*) V-Ray: Fixed wrong material connection when there is no material shader connected in the shading group
(*) V-Ray: Fixed moving meshes not switching from static to dynamic geometry in IPR
(*) V-Ray: Fixed Metal engine/device selection not persisting when switching between GPU and CPU
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash with Chaos Collaboration on MacOS with Intel CPU or emulation
(*) V-Ray: Fixed slow loading of Volume grid located on a shared drive
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash when graphing a material node imported from vrscene coming from Houdini
(*) V-Ray: Added missing metadata when uploading an image to Chaos Collaboration from the VFB
(*) V-Ray: Added missing tooltips for Metal UI buttons
(*) V-Ray: Added Credits and Copyrights link to the Settings Tab and About Window

(*) VFB: Remember and use last folder location when loading files in the VFB
(*) VFB: Added Recent Files option for loading images in the VFB
(*) VFB: Fixed disappearing Curve Layer's Histogram when the Alpha channel is black
(*) VFB: Fixed VFB Undo and Redo issues when there is a Background layer
(*) VFB: Fixed more than one click needed to undo VFB filter

(*) Chaos Cosmos: Fixed endless loop when auto-downloading missing Cosmos assets with anonymous or unlogged users
(*) Chaos Cosmos: Fixed missing Cosmos variant preview images in VRayProxy UI when changing the Cosmos root directory
(*) Chaos Cosmos: Fixed drag and drop of Cosmos asset variants not importing the chosen variation index

(*) Chaos Vantage: Fixed crash when rendering animation with Chaos Vantage with starting frame 0

(*) Chaos Cloud: Fixed MaterialX image file textures not uploaded to Chaos Cloud

(*) V-Ray GPU: Added missing vray_gpu_device_select tool with Maya 2025
(*) V-Ray GPU: Fixed named hair map channels not rendering